Posted on 08/05/2014 11:08:44 AM PDT by Mariner
Contractors have taken on the huge task of sheltering thousands of unaccompanied child migrants
In the late afternoon of July 9, Air Force One touched down at Love Field in Dallas. President Barack Obama ducked into a private room at the airport for a discussion about the crisis of undocumented children crossing the southwest border. Assembled around a wooden table were top Texas officials, including Governor Rick Perry and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, as well as the leaders of several faith-based charities. One of them was a man so anonymous, the White House pool report misspelled his name.
Kevin Dinnin is the CEO of a faith-based, nonprofit organization called BCFS, formerly known as Baptist Child and Family Services. This obscure charity has emerged as one of the biggest players in the federal government’s response to the influx of more than 57,000 unaccompanied children who have trudged across the southern border so far this year. It runs two of the largest facilities for temporarily housing immigrant children, as well as six permanent shelters in California and Texas. Since December, BCFS has received more than $280 million in federal grants to operate these shelters, according to government records. On July 7, two days before Dinnin met Obama in Dallas, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded BCFS $190,707,505 in a single grant.
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This is causing problems in other states where donors are asking if their Baptist Children’s Homes are involved. Baptist needs to be removed from the organization title if it is a self-serving organization.
It has been. The organization's name is now simply BCFS.
So what is the B in the name for. It really gives the Texas Baptists a Black eye. The last time the story appeared other states were contacted by some of their donors to see if this was a quid pro quo for them as well.
Amen.
For those of you who would like to call President Obama about his illegal immigrant amnesty, the White House hotline number is 202-456-1111.
I can say this.
We have a yearly neighborhood garage sale.
I’ve made $1100, $700, and other lesser sums getting rid of stuff from kids moving up and out, Euro military tours, and other out and backs.
This year we took a lot of time and effort. No one came. guys down the street were selling stuff $1 a piece regardless. Furniture, apppliances etc.
They had so manycars all day.
We sat looking.
all the work we put in and we should’ve put it into a charity instead of sitting all day after arranging it.
All their customers were from the local Baptist Church. They and the neighbors were all for it, ‘they go to our church’
Well, fine. How about letting us know so we can make other arrangements.
Oh OHH Oh!!! you are so confrontational. You must be a yankee!
Sigh
I read this story and see a lot into it.
Not that I didn’t write a few choice words to the local priest over the illegals and their particular stand on that inspired by the USCCB
A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon that adds up to real money!
Senator Everett Dirksen
Whoever heard of this group before??? Whoever heard od this group before??? My Baptist friend never heard of it !
First of all, crossing the border shouldn’t be a misdemeanor.
Period. Especially being a time of war with islamists crossing. It’s an act of war.
And if you were formerly from Texas, you know muslims have been crossing for at least 30 years.
If only it were so! In reality, your tax dollars, my tax dollars, and everyone else's will foot the bill.
The welfare of the children is far from these peoples’ minds. All they care about is the money. The entire organization is a fraud set up by cronies to get tax dollars. And I’ve read they have nothing to do with the actual Baptist Church. With that said, I haven’t heard the Baptist Church condemning them either.
Do you have information where this “charity” is teaching these kids about Jesus? Do you really think the government would give them money if they were teaching about Jesus? Get a clue.
Of course not. But some part of the Baptist leadership seems to have clung to it's shadowy socialist past.
From http://viewfrom1776.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/13/4505744-pelosi-as-gods-emissary
...Nominally-Christian theological seminaries were in the vanguard of the movement toward socialism. Rochester Theological Seminary's professor Walter Rauschenbusch, one of the best known socialist spokesmen of his era, was a founder of the Social Gospel movement late in the 19th century. Social Gospel was nothing more nor less than socialism masquerading as Christianity.
Social Gospel embraced the avowed aims of socialism, which sound similar to the results that flow from the Bible's commandment to love one's neighbor as he would wish to have his neighbor love him. The insurmountable problem is that socialism, and therefore Social Gospel, is atheistic and materialistic, i.e., the antithesis of Christianity and religious Judaism...
If you look up the history of the University of Rochester, you will learn it was operated by Baptists.
Here's an interesting tidbit that should get some eye rolls, major funding for the University of Rochester back then was provided by John D. Rockefeller. Even today their mascot is a predator wasp they named Rocky.
Did you see the link I posted where they had a preacher coming into the facilities?
I’m just curious but are you yet another basher of non Catholic Christians here....I hope not
This organization is a subterfuge....an NGO with a sweet innocuous sounding name with ACORN intent
It has nothing to do with Southern Baptist Convention which is 90% of US Baptists
It may have slight connection to some black liberation Baptist National Convention
Not sure....
But it reeks of Friends of Obama and part of his overall amnesty democrat voters strategery
You are correct dear but Freepers by and large are too lazy to Google when barking is easier and more fun
Apologies backhoe
This gang is Baptist nothing.
He knows full well making a non white America is his biggest victory and greases his path
I guess they thought Baptist sounded good in Texas or it sort of looks. Like they bought an old shell entity to reinvent
BTW....they just dropped the Baptist name after Texas folks got mad
uponllearning about the failed hotel buy in Hidalgo
Sneaky critters
For the record....if the cause is just....liberty for example....I don't mind churches being activist
Not the case here obviously
So far nobody can find that link.
And no, I'm not a Church of any kind basher.
I TRY to stay factual as best I can and let the chips fall where they may.
I know it is base-level emotional for a lot of folks.
Tax the Churches. If they want taxpayers to pay for them, they need to pony up.
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